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The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Wednesday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors. Brian Kolfage, a decorated Air Force veteran who lost both of his legs and an arm in the Iraq War, previously pleaded guilty for his role in siphoning donations from the We Build the Wall campaign. A co-defendant, financier Andrew Badolato, was also sentenced to three years for aiding the effort. He had also pleaded...

A Iraq War veteran accused of defrauding donors out of $350,000 (£268,747) in a bid to build a southern border wall has now agreed to plead guilty, according to a court filing. Brian Kolfage, of Miramar, Florida, was indicated in August 2020 alongside former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon for allegedly scraping off the top of millions they raised to privately build the border wall. Of the $25m (£19m) in GoFundMe donations, Mr Kolfage allegedly took $350,000 and Mr Bannon took $1m, prosecutors said. Both were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud with a third person, Timothy Shea. As Law&Crime...

The communists in the government are determined to destroy every single thing about America that is good and great. This is why the communists are trying to destroy triple-amputee war hero Brian Kolfage and why they hate him for building a wall on the Southern border. We’ve reported before on hero Brian Kolfage. Once the Department of Justice goes after a target who’s pro-God, pro-family, and pro-American they never stop. The attack again and again. If the person is an American war hero, they attack them as if they’re working for communist China. ..... Snip..... The courts have gone after...

When the agents went into the house, they searched all over, including in the children’s rooms. They asked Kolfage about his guns, how many and their characteristics. They allowed Kolfage to only take his medications with him and then took Kolfage outside while his two children huddled in their room with fear. What happened next likely violated numerous articles of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Once outside the 15 agents dragged triple amputee war hero Brian Kolfage with one good arm and no legs into their arrest vehicle! This was extremely humbling and unsafe for Kolfage!

On August 20th, President Trump’s former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was arrested on fraud charges relating to the “We Build the Wall” construction project on the U.S.-Mexico border. The news made for splashy headlines, but story behind the charges was more mundane. Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee veteran and Purple Heart recipient, used a crowdfunding website as part of a political gag aimed at raising $1 billion dollars to construct a U.S.-Mexico border wall. After unexpectedly raising $17 million dollars within the first week, Kolfage decided to hand off the suddenly real and ambitious initiative to someone with more experience,...

The witch hunt is on! I'm not going to be bullied into being a political prisoner for my beliefs. I have fought hard for these freedoms and the SDNY is on a all out assault to take down every Trump insider from the 2016 election, that means Bannon. They will ruin innocent peoples lives in order to have a war trophy pinned to the wall just before elections. I've obtained one the best super lawyers around who isn't afraid to fight back at the politically motivated assaults against me. This is where the line of freedom is drawn. If you...

Did the Wall GoFundMe Founder Use the Money to Buy a Yacht? In 2019, we found no evidence Brian Kolfage purchased a yacht — or any other personal items — with money raised for building a border wall. But in August 2020, organization leaders were indicted on fraud charges. [cut] Our original article is below: [cut] The post prompted readers to write in and ask Snopes.com whether Kolfage bought a yacht with funds raised for the wall. Kolfage said it’s not only not true, but it would have been impossible. He purchased the vessel in question for $675,000, paid mostly...

Kolfage, a Purple Heart veteran who lost an arm and two legs in Iraq in 2004, was arrested at his home in Florida and is accused of being the main beneficiary of the scam, allegedly pocketing a staggering $350,000 of donor money while he and his wife flaunted their extravagant lifestyles on social media. Newly resurfaced footage of the pair taken on June 24, 2019 shows the two men openly laughing and joking about peddling money from the border wall scheme, more than a year before the feds swooped in. In the video, part of We Build The Wall's 'Wall-A-Thon'...

Editor’s note: Federal prosecutors in New York have arrested former senior Trump adviser Steve Bannon and three other men, and charged them with allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors to an online fundraising campaign to build portions of wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a University of Notre Dame law professor who researches nonprofits, explains what’s going on and what the consequences could be. ============================================================================================================ 1. Who is accused of what, exactly? Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has accused Bannon and the founder of the “We Build...

WASHINGTON — Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage promised donors to his online crowdfunding campaign that their money would only go to construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. However, he cashed in on that trust by secretly taking more than $300,000 in donations to buy himself a luxury car, jewelry and pay down his debts, according to a Justice Department indictment unsealed Thursday. Kolfage 38, of Miramar Beach, Fla., is a well-known Purple Heart recipient who survived a rocket attack in 2004 at Balad Air Base in Iraq that caused the amputation of his legs and right arm, according...

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A federal judge (U.S. District Judge Randy Crane) lifted a temporary restraining order against a project to build a privately funded border wall next to the Rio Grande... Tommy Fisher, owner of Fisher Sand & Gravel, a North Dakota-based construction firm, had been waiting for the chance to prove he can build President Trump’s signature border wall faster and better than the government... Fisher has said his crews could start work as soon as Sunday and finish in eight days. Fisher has argued the government was being overly cautious by building walls far away from the river. His crews plan...

Brian Kolfage ‏ Brian Kolfage 43 minutes ago More WE WIN! The Federal Judge lifted the TRO. We can Build in the Floodplain, this will change the game. The judge absolutely annihilated @NatButterflies @nababuterfly @mtwrighter and the IBWC. WALL GOING UP! WE WILL SAVE TEXAS! @WeBuildtheWall @DonaldJTrumpJr @charliekirk11

At Wednesday's El Cenizo City Council meeting, commissioners unanimously voted to have a meeting with an organization that was started through a crowdfunding webpage to build privately funded sections of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall. El Cenizo City Commissioner Salvador Hernandez posted an agenda item to have a meeting with the organization We Build The Wall to discuss future planning to construct a barrier on the end of the riverbank picnic area in the city. "(We Build the Wall) will be in charge of putting up the barrier, cleaning the area, putting cameras and making it safe for the...

We Build the Wall founder Brian Kolfage said the Trump administration called the International Boundary and Water Commission, a federal agency, to authorize his organization’s construction of a private border wall.He also said the Department of Homeland Security approved his organization’s venture.Both agencies disputed Kolfage’s claim. The founder of the nonprofit group that built a half-mile border wall over Memorial Day weekend said the Trump administration sanctioned the project, but two federal agencies disputed his claim Wednesday. Triple amputee and Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage said Wednesday that the Trump administration called the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC)...

Brian Kolfage, the Air Force triple amputee veteran who founded a non-profit organization to build the wall at the southern United States border with private donations, said he expects to break ground in the next couple of months. Kolfage told Breitbart News in an exclusive phone interview on Thursday, “We’re moving forward with the wall. I’ve got some land owners who are ready to rock and roll, and want us to start slapping up some wall.” “We should be able to break ground in the next couple of months, we hope, according to our experts,” he said.

I wanted to give you a quick update on the amazing response we've been getting. Nearly half of the original donors have responded to GoFundMe and 94% of those responses are backing the new plan. In less than a month, we've assembled an all-star team, begun site selection for our first segment, formed an organization, and a hundred other things necessary to build a wall on the southern border. Our ambitious timeline calls for us to break ground in months, not years. We are working hard to earn your continued support and keep you updated. Our team also put out...

Clearly, GFM is a liberal toilet, but they are hosting the noble "We The People Will Fund The Wall" campaign. While they maintain the top 3 fundraisers on their main page, and this campaign has been #1 since inception, as of a few days ago, GFM has seen fit to yank this campaign from their front page. Furthermore, they put up their limp ladder campaign, to which GFM themselves is the lead contributor, as the #1 campaign. Okay, the wall campaign still is the top dog, while the ladder crap lags. Well, now the latest, as of noon Wednesday, the...

Deranged leftists have been sending triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage mountains of abuse after he was trashed by the Daily Beast, Jimmy Kimmel, Alyssa Milano and other high-profile liberals. The hate mail provided to the Gateway Pundit contains appalling statements such as people asking if his brain was “amputated too,” calling him a “handicapped bitch,” telling him to commit suicide, wishing harm upon his children and mocking him for having lost his limbs while fighting for this nation. On Thursday, Kimmel used his show to trash the nearly 260,000 people who have donated nearly $16 million to the GoFundMe in less...

We, the American people should respond instantly to these threats of harm from Democrat, Schumer/Pelosi nutcases. We should not respond with violence, but we should respond with massive donations to Air Force Hero, Brian Kolfage's "Fund The Border Wall" campaign. We should request that 1,000,000 Americans, donate $10.00, each over the next twenty-four hour period. That action should send a message that will drive the Democrat lunatics to further insanity!!! Do it!!!